Berlin AWS User Group Meetup

Our main presentation topic was the AWS Minion command line tool which allows managing immutable stacks of Docker applications.

After getting strengthened by beer and big slices of tasty pizza (thanks to the host Onefootball),
we listened to two interesting talks (news from AWS re:Invent and a new tool to increase S3 efficiency):

As soon as AWS Config becomes available, we will definitely check it out to get a better view across all our AWS resources

Sadly most of the announced AWS services are either in preview or not available at all (yet).

Our presentation about AWS Minion went last and briefly described our AWS setup and the reasoning behind it:

We have about 40 different development teams

We want every team to be autonomous in their decisions (e.g. technology selection)

Every team should

be able to use any AWS service (RDS, ElastiCache or any other newly announced products such as AWS CodePipeline)

have an isolated sandbox, e.g. team A should not be able to shut down EC2 instances of team B

be able to access services of other teams

have separate billing & accounting, i.e. it needs to be clear which team generates which costs